| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Rodentia
- ---- family: Muridae
- ----- species: Mastomys coucha
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| Characteristics: | herbivore; length: 24cm, tail-length: 11cm; underparts paler than upperparts, females have up to 12 pairs of nipples |
| Countries: |
- BW
- Botswana
- MZ
- Mozambique
- NA
- Namibia
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZW
- Zimbabwe
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0116
- KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic
- AT0119
- Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
- AT0128
- Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
- AT0702
- Angolan Mopane woodlands
- AT0709
- Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
- AT0717
- Southern Africa bushveld
- AT0719
- Southern Miombo woodlands
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT0726
- Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
- AT0907
- Zambezian flooded grasslands
- AT0908
- Zambezian halophytics
- AT1003
- Drakensberg alti-montane grasslands and woodlands
- AT1004
- Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
- AT1006
- Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
- AT1009
- Highveld grasslands
- AT1012
- Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets
- AT1309
- Kalahari xeric savanna
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| References: | Stuart and Stuart 2007: 126 |
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